Dr. Dusan Bratko is a professor of physical chemistry at the Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. He obtained his PhD in physical chemistry from the University of Ljubljana and had previously held positions at the Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Ljubljana, and in the College of Chemistry, University of California at Berkeley. His research concerns statistical mechanics and the molecular modeling of ionic solutions, colloids, and interfacial phenomena of interest in nanoscience, energy, and materials engineering. He is a member of the American Chemical and Physical Societies and American Association for Advancement of Science.